We are in phase of deploying Win 7 allover the orgn, basically we have many kinds of appls resonse differently to the OSes, althought we tested many of them for the compatibility with Win7 and got Green flag. but still not daring to deploy in production. please suggest how we can ensure that won't face incidents/problems due to this change.
Note: we have hundreds of appls responds differently to diffrent OSes._________________------------------------------------------------------
ITIL V3 Certified --Intermediate level
Service Transition management.
Manage the change and change the management to an improvised tool

This is a significant change if it is going to be organization wide...

You will need to ensure proper impact analysis and will need to call upon experts from each application to test their applications impact if loaded on Windows 7... Once you have signoff from all the critical applications owners (post testing) - you can then proceed with the implementation to production environment on a phased basis week on week to allow the deployment and still to see the impact of it on a phased manner...

hope this gives a direction to proceed_________________Regards,
Subbu A
ITIL Certified and well experienced

Last edited by SubbuA on Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:48 pm; edited 2 times in total

Thanks for all your suggestions,
as I mentioned, the problem is we have 'n' number of appls specially designed for IT manufacturing and PLMS developments, our client there is still using Win 2K for developing there frameworks (platform for our development) causing many conflicts with day to day upgrades to our deliverables.
here, the users are demanding Win 7 as it is graphic oriented and helpful for there designing work in CATIA or so.
We have 'N' number of environments and it's very difficult to build each of them and then test it, I understand this is the best possible option but can you suggest another one?_________________------------------------------------------------------
ITIL V3 Certified --Intermediate level
Service Transition management.
Manage the change and change the management to an improvised tool